Please add any material relating to C&C.
* The fair choice for climate change - an excellent summary and advocacy of C&C by Aubrey Meyer.
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surface transport - summary
Campaigns
* Road Block - alliance against road building * Slower Speeds - for a sustainable transport system (especially sustainable speed limits) * Sustrans - the sustainable transport charity (especially low carbon transport) * Transport 2000Carbon Footprinting: links
* Resurgence Carbon calculator - based on electricity/gas bills but it includes less common energy sources like wood, propane and butane.
* National Energy Foundation carbon calulator: covers almost everything, with a useful list of conversion factors.
* Carbonlife calculator - very general, based on lifestyle.
* Fuel conversion factors from Defra (last updated June 2005).
Aviation: summary
Please add links to any articles relating to aviation.
* Monbiot: We are all killers.
Campaigns
* Airportwatch - the airport expansion protest coalition. * Plane Stupid (!) - direct action on aviation. * Aviation Environment Federation - sole UK organisation dedicated to Aviation and the EnvironmentGovt. policy
* Government aviation white paperEmissions: links
* Global CO2 emissions from CDIAC
* Global, Regional, and National Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions from Online Trends by CDIAC: emissions broken down by region and country (to 2002).
Parliament
What's going on in Parliament.
Sites: ePolitix (keep track of legislation), Public Whip (track voting records), the EDM List, and the UK Parliament (debates and publications). The Environmental Audit Committee accepts written and oral evidence from witnesses that really do know how little the government is doing.
Climate Science
General
* IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) * Climate change on Wikipedia (especially good figures e.g. Climate Change attribution) * Global Climate Change Student Guide from ARIC (pdf) * Royal Society - A guide to facts and fictions about climate change. Prepared by a group led by Sir David Wallace FRS, Treasurer of the Royal Society, and Sir John Houghton FRS, former chair of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and endorsed by the Council of the Royal Society. It addresses the popular skeptics' arguments and the value of the Kyoto Protocol as a first step.Resources
Please post in the sections below. Any questions or comments to David, or send material to david AT tonderai.co.uk.
Campaigning: original campaigning material (artwork, leaflets, letters etc.); Teaching: original teaching materials (presentations, classroom resources etc.); Sources: links to background reading & references that can inform the campaign (reports, articles etc.); Parliament: lobbying material (bills, edms and MPs).
Cap and Dividend versus grandfathering - why we need a campaign in Europe
I'm puzzled that there hasn't been more objection to the EC's plans to give away ("grandfather") carbon emission permits to existing polluters (mainly coal-fired power generators). Apart from a WWF-commissioned report in April which pointed out that this will be a 60 billion euro windfall to the polluters, I can't find any sign that European environmentalists realise how much of a scandal this is.
Car use: a right or a privilege?
There seems to be a universal assumption, even among environmentalists, that we all have an inalienable human right to use a car in the first place. All the suggested solutions to this number one carbon emitter are merely tinkerings with our practice of using cars without need.
I suggest two actions.
First, it is about time that environmentalists recognize that the biggest cause of greenhouse emissions is the individual's use of the car, not governments and corporations. YOU are to blame, not them.
